caz,
Given the time of day, and your stated age and location, I hope you are sitting outside drinking wine and eating cheese as you post on here - certainly a nice mental image in comparison to the weather picture outside my window right now.......
To the best of my knowledge, only 2 Sqns in the RAF have ever been awarded a standard before they had been in existence for the normal 25 year qualifying period. In both cases it was for their exploits in WW2.
One was 617 Sqn, the other has already been disbanded, although it probably helped save that particular Sqn from closure on one previous occasion.